The 19 -year -old Alzheimer’s patient leaves doctors struggling for response
The teenager who diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease was having trouble focusing in the classroom. While it became difficult to read, their short -term memory declined over years.
In 2023, the neurologist diagnosed a 19 -year -old with a potential Alzheimer’s disease, making him the youngest person in the world to diagnose the condition.
Doctors at the Memory Clinic in China found that the teenager had been experiencing a decline in memory from the age of 17, and their cognitive damage in the years deteriorated.
The images of the young man’s brain shows a shrinkage in their hippocampus area, which is involved with memory, and their cerebrospinal fluid, which is a marker of the most common form of dementia.
Alzheimer’s disease, among the fastest growing neurological disorders in the world, affects mostly older individuals, showing early signs and symptoms in patients aged 65 and above.
This rare case has been reviewed by colleagues, the journal of Alzheimer’s disease, the researchers of four institutes, the National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Beijing of Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, the major laboratory, the major laboratory of the capital, and the major laboratory of neurodynative diseases, the laboratory, Alzhem, the Ministry of Beijing, China.
In fact, all patients under the age of 30 can have pathological gene mutations, put them in the category of family Alzheimer’s disease (FAD). The younger person occurs when they receive a diagnosis, more likely that this is the result of a defective gene that has inherited them.
However, researchers at Capital Medical University in Beijing found no faulty genes in a 19-year-old man during a genome-wide discovery.
Prior to this diagnosis, the youngest Alzheimer’s patient was 21 years old, who carried out the PSEN1 gene mutation, producing abnormal proteins in the brain, which produces bunches of toxic plates, a common feature of Alzheimer’s, according to a report of science alert.
Therefore, the latest case is a mystery. While no one else in the family was suffering from dementia, the teenager had no other diseases to support the cause of diagnosis.
Before showing in the clinic in China, the teenager was having trouble focusing in the classroom. It became difficult to read, their short -term memory declined. He could not remember the events even a day earlier and always misrepresented his belongings.
Subsequently, he showed losses in immediate recall, recalled less-deer after three minutes, and after 30 minutes long recalled solutions.
His medical team at the Memory Clinic said that at that time the patient was changing our understanding of the specific age of the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. “
Neurologist Ziaping Zia and colleagues wrote in their studies, “The patient did not have a very early advertisement,” Neurologist Ziaping Zia and colleagues wrote in their studies, which suggests that its pathogenesis still needs to be detected. ,
The study suggests that Alzheimer’s disease is not an accurate cause and it is a much more complex disease.
In a statement by the South China Morning Post, the neurologist who described the case of the patient argued that future studies should focus on initial beginning matters to improve our understanding of memory loss.
